The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-30


almost gave up, but managed to
stand it, and now l know it is the best
cake l ever baked You see way down
here, where have taken little bite,
and it is good. Our folks will like it,
anyway, because l baked it. o, dear,
there are my potatoes boiling over"
And away the jubilant young thing
scampers to see about the potatoes she
had cut into balls and dice to make
them pretty when served in cream
sauce. On the polished range are
grouped kettles large, and small, with
the contents bubbling lively tune and
giving forth a most delicious odor.
While the girls wait for the cooking
they watch the process of bread and
roll-making going on at the kitchen
table. The bread had been set in the
morning by one of the members of the
ladies' class, for Mrs. Riley has wealthy
pupils as well as working ones, and the
sewing girls of the evening class knead
and cut it into different shapes to make
Parker House Boston, you know,)
finger and crescent rolls and shaping
round loaves. The whole class watch,
and such EXPLANATIONS as "There, Car
RE. you got that one just lovely" or
80, those remind me of the mud cakes
we used to make in the back yard at
home!" are frequently heard. The gay
little milliner declares Carrie is making
whole family out of the dough, from
Father and Mother Dough down to the
twins, but while the girls chatter the
kneading goes on under the watchful
eye and careful directions of the teacher.
"Miss O." asks the Professor of
Cookery, will you please watch that
fire and not let it 60 out, as the fire
tender did last week while the cooking
was going on, thereby spelling the
whole lesson?" Miss O. flies at the
fire in true womanly style, and soon
the chatter and clatter of tongues,
kettles, pans and spoons begin with re-
newed vigor, for now the brisk fire has
done its work and the master of cere-
monies, after peep or two under lids,
decides that the cooking is finished and
that the pots may be lifted.
The young woman who has the fish in
charge lifts the wire basket it had boiled
in, and, after carefully removing the
skin, places the fish on the range again,
where it will keep warm until she has
made the drawn butter sauce to pour
overit. The bread and rolls are by this
time ready for the oven. The eggs are
poached for the poached eggs on toast,
the fire tender of the evening being
elated over her final success in properly
breaking an egg after having scored
two or three failures. 1t seems a small
thing to do, but she could not do it right
until after the third trial.
Now comes the finishing touches
Sauces are prepared and poured over
the vegetables and buildings, and with
pride and eagerness the young cooks sit
down to enjoy the new experience of
eating food prepared with their own
hands. The simple dishes are eaten
with much smacking of lips and trading
of 'tastes," and during the feast of
samples one has an opportunity to OBJ
serve that the pupils are generous
enough to praise one another's skill and
not at all fastidious about licking from
each others spoons.
each girl pays ten cents lesson,
and she gets the benefit of what is
taught the Others" said the now tired
instructress, seating herself in her coy
little parlor. They are always enthu-
siastic in their work. Many of the
girls are learning to cook for the new
homes which they expect to enter be-
fore long as brides. Some, though,
tired of restaurant lunches and prices,
take this way out of the difficulty and
declare themselves delighted with the
success they have in their rooms test
ing the rules they have learned here,
the novelty of getting their own meals
giving them pleasure and recreation,
and also taking off considerable little
sum from their weekly expenses.
Besides the working girls, we have
classes which are composed of many of
the wealthiest and most refined ladies
in the city, and they are equally as
eager to learn to cook as the others,
partly, | suppose, because it is the
latest fashionable craze.
The school of cookery and house
work was the outgrowth of the small
beginnings of the kitchen garden,
started some years ago by the Kitchen
Garden Association, and designed for
children from ten to twelve years of
age. The children are instructed with
toy utensils how to perform all the du-
ties of well kept house. Little beds
furnished complete with mattresses,
sheets, blankets and pillows are used
to teach them how to make beds. Toy
tubs with washboards and q bag of
dolls clothes are given each pupil, and
with these she learns how to do laun-
dry work. At an exhibition given
few weeks ago these little girls went
through the drills given them in their
course of Notwithstanding, bak-
ing, sweeping and busting, dining
room service and answering the door
bells. All these drills are gone through
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